20 weeks

Feb. 12, 2007

Today was a good day, I felt really great but I ate to much and it made me throw up! My appetite has been lessening lately so I have to force myself to eat. I don't want my baby to go hungry! I finally got a doctor's appointment for Feb.27 (my b-day!), which took over a week to get! I don't understand why they wouldn't schedule me at the desk, why did they have the doctor's assistant do it? I don't know but I am just to finally have one and get all checked out. I am actually kind of nervous because it's my first exam DOWN THERE (if you know what I mean), ever. Never had one of those...Haha, why do I have to have one of those on my birthday of all days? Well atleast my birthday will bea good day because I will find out if my baby is all healthy and everything which I am sure he/she is. My mom thinks I am showing a lot, she almost cried today because she thinks it is so cute and wonderful...It took a long time for her to come around and be excited about the baby...I am really glad she is though. Now I just have to work on my dad...Haha he isn't all that happy but he just worries about me. Well I will update after my doctor's appointment. I'm about done with the first trimester! :)

Feb. 20, 2008
Well I think I just felt the baby move! It was a little flutter feeling but I don't know if it is too early or what? I am 13 weeks3days! I am getting so happy and excited to meet the baby but I still have such a ways to go. I hope my doctor's appt. goes well and that I can hear the heart beat. I bought one of those things to day to listen to it from home but they say it's really difficult to hear it with those so I will have to wait. I want to know what I am having really bad so I can start buying him/her clothes and toys and just cool stuff. I want to also pick out furniture for the room (when he/she has their own!) I have a feeling it's gonna be a girl...my little madison! i will call her maddy. I am getting my appetite back and it's a big one! I get full fast but I also get hungry again really quickly. Also I feel like I am already having a hard time breathing...like there is pressure on my ribs but I don't see how that could bealready. I guess I will ask the doctor. So many things... I don't know what to expect, this my first time. Well I should try to sleep.

Feb. 25, 2008
I have my doctors appointment on Wednesday (2 days away) and I also turn 19 on that day! I have millions of questions to ask the doctor, I am afraid I will have to write them down in order to remember them all. I am so anxious. I can't wait until summer gets here and I get closer to meeting my baby. I love her/him so much. I think it's a girl still haha. I constantly feel really uncomfortable and can't sleep at night, I also have no energy during the day. I started to take prenatal vitamins now that my morning sickness is gone. Man I thought that would never end. I bought some new clothes to fit my rounder belly today. I also bought a little onsey for the baby that says Hot Tomato with a little red tomato on it. heheh I thought it was cute. Well I will be updating this on Wednesday so share how my appointment went!

Feb. 26, 2007
Well I wasn't suppsed to even get an ultra sound today becuase my doctor's appointment is tomorrow but this is what happened...
Last night I was sitting down and I felt a gross rush of something warm and I look down and feel and see blood. That is a really bad sign! It can mean you are having a miscarriage. So I go downstairs and I am frantic yelling MOM I AM BLEEDING!! then I feel another gush...So I ran to the bathroom and I won't go into details but I was scared to death taht there was something wrong with the baby because you aren't really supposed to be bleeding but it turns out it happens to a TON of pregnant people and sometimes it is bad and other times it's nothing at all. So I am scared and crying hysterically and my mom tells me to calm down that it will only make things harder if I get upset like that so I calm down and she tells me to go to sleep and in the morning we will be able to handle it. So I go to bed and no more spotting occurs until I wake up the next morning. I called my doctor's nurse and tell her what happened and she said says to stay calm and that it could be normal. She set me up an appointment for 10:30 to get an ultra sound and to then go get bloodwork done.
I went to my ultra sound shaking and crying until I found that little heart beat thumping away...She measured it and it was 171, and right then I knew it was a boy based on something I read a while ago about telling a boy vs. girl by the heart rate. But there was my little baby moving all over the place with a perfect heart beat. I was SO relieved I cried and laughed. She measured him and I was asking her if it was too soon to tell whether it was a boy or girl and she said she would try and get a look between the legs. Well the moment she got between there I immediately saw a penis hehehe...And she goes, "It looks like a boy!"...AJ was beaming :) We're havin' a son!! She also said he was measuring to be 15 weeks so I am now due around August 19, 2008. Definetely don't get to see Tom Petty now!
Then she had to take a closer look at my placenta to see if it anything was wrong but the only thing she saw was that it is a "low lyeing placenta" which means it sits very close to the birthing canal which can be the cause for the bleeding. There was nothing else wrong with me! I still get another doctor's appointment tomorrow!

April 29, 2008
Oh I am terrible at writing stuff on here. I feel like I am always talking about baby so I forget. I'm 24 weeks today but actually I guess I am 23. I was really early when I find out I was pregnant, only 6 weeks so he could tell me a really accurate due date which is August 25 but then I went in Feb. and the ultra sound tech. said I was measuring a week earlier but then my LAST U/S a month ago showed that I was still measuring right for August 25 which makes me have to RE-DO week 23!!! GRRRR.... I don't want to go backwards!!!! Oh well... I'm just going to keep counting a week ahead just because it makes me feel better. But I am going to be real sad if I have a 41 week pregnancy haha. Anyway I have to go in to a doctor's appointment today and I don't want to get weighed.. I've already gained a lot but I guess I was getting unhealthy thin before I got pregnant. I don't know. I just want August to hurry up and get here. I have decided to have my baby shower on June 14. I want to meet my baby Hunter soooo bad.

May 24, 2008
Today I am going to Ikea to look for a crib! I hope I find the perfect one. I'm 27 weeks and 4 days! On tuesday I will be 28 weeks and I also go in for my glucose test to see if I have GD but I am sure I don't?! Well how should I know... But anyway the baby shower is June 14! Getting closer. Finished birthing classes last night and they are fun and I will miss going to them haha. Well better go shower.

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